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In times before the Internet, it was so easy to miss a good band. You simply could not have heard of them, particularly if they went the independent…

It must be something in the water. Australian drinking water. Otherwise, how would acclaimed psych, garage, blues, alternative singers like Nick Cave,…

If you are eco-conscuous, then you believe in recycling. But what happens when you are eco-conscious in your approach to music? Then you are an artist…

Listening to Gareth Dickson’s album “Orwell Court” one of the thoughts passing your mind is, that hopefully, it's not the court of George…

There is a standard tendency with rock critics, old and new - bring them up and then slam them down. I guess they take that critic word in…

  Richard Hawley’s Lady’s Bridge was one of my favorite albums back in 2007. Refreshing love poetry the singer delivered on this record found…

In this age of information glut, whether it is the number of music titles available or the method by which you can reach them, it is so easy for quite…

You would have to search deep into the Seventies memorabilia to find the cover of the album that inspired the cover art Nashville’s The Paperhead used…

Let's talk about eclecticism without aroma. Five years and three albums are just enough for Alt-J to make his new release highly anticipated. A…

The moment you realize that somebody who’s from Athens Georgia has recorded all his three solo albums for a German specialist label, you begin to…

An oldie, but a goodie, I was re-acquainted with this album whilst noshing on pizza and sipping white wine at a restaurant last night. Although the…

Pete Fij and Terry Bickers - never heard? Well, if you are a close follower of all things music, particularly the late Eighties and early Nineties…

During the first half of the 90s, British collective Slowdive established as one of the most prominent shoegaze bands, leaving three classics behind…

  If someone asked me who is the most brilliant female singer in the world right now, few names would pop in my mind. The following review…

Feist’s Metals is one of my favourite albums. Let me tell you why. The first few bars of the opening song, The Bad in Each Other, set the album apart…

As each year gets close to its end, I start scavenging other people’s “best of” lists to find something I’ve not heard before, something to have for…

Grief can be an exceedingly strong motivator and can produce some deeply sad, bad at the same time, life-affirming music. Remember, for example, Neil…

Ii it was easy to transfer sadness, despair, and despondency into music, then everybody would be doing it. You really have to feel it, or you have to…

Usually I perk up my ears for anything that comes out on the, what some people consider out there label, Sacred Bones.  Wymond Miles has…

It's been a long time since the bass sounded this good in the music of The Killers. They give the best of themselves in the first seconds of dense…

Jake Bugg became famous at the age of 18, and he is an independent artist ever since. I don’t remember he was ever related with some popular…

In an interview with the band, lead singer Elena Tonra detailed that she sings about those things which she finds difficult to talk about. I remember…

Autumn and spring are moderate seasons. Both are some sort of foreplay for winter/summer, which means they are not extreme. On the other hands, our…

Scott McCaughey is no more a Young Fresh Fellow. In more ways than one. For one, this legend of the Seattle music scene is no more a spring chicken…

There must be someone who deserves the same hype as Frank Ocean. There must be and here he is. Twenty year old author and multi instrumentalist Alex…

I simply cannot stand anymore when any new or relatively new band that has a punk pop tendency is compared to Green Day as if those guys invented…

The first moment you encounter the music of Coti K.,“The Man From Managra”, a Greek guy form the Island of Tinos, you would be hard pressed to say…